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General Motors Patent for Ultraviolet LED Emitters to Clean Fingerprints/Smudges off Touchscreens

Loz Blain writing in New Atlas about recent GM patent 11,579,340 for UV based touchscreen cleaning. The LED emitting UV can clean off fingerprints and smudges overnight.General Motors has received a patent for a fascinating self-cleaning technology that could eliminate the annoyance of smudgy fingerprints all over touchscreens. It’s a photocatalytic system, triggered by ultraviolet…

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